By rskhanna on

Please guide, folks:
1. Taxonomy:
a. What is the most effective way of using it – one large Tx. Or several small ones.
b. Can separate installations of Drupal use the same Taxonomy
c. Can Taxonomies be imported/exported for use in other sister sites; can they be combined from different sites?
d. Taxonomy and forums – may we have less than all the terms in forums (we want forums to be connected with the Taxonomy, just not to every level depth of we will have for taxonomies)?
e. Can we not reproduce results of taxonomy by term name rather than ID?
2. Is it better/more efficient to have several installations of Drupal for different purposes (Different but related FAQ’s, Books etc.) for high volume sites (10,000 unique visitors a day).

Many thanks.

Comments

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

1a: you mean multiple vocabularies. noone has claimed performance problems with large vocabularies, so i suggest using whichever suits your user intefrace/workflow better.

1b, 1c. not directly. you can shre taxonomies with the xfml module. that module is not well maintained though. taxonomy import/export is not implemented. again, i think xfml might be the quickest path for this.

1e. not implemented

2. I suggest using 1 Drupal site if that is what makes sense for your users and admins. the caching logic in core drupal is very strong, and suitable for large sites. If you are getting really slammed, consider using the filecache stuff in Marco's sandbox. Also, the develkopment mail list is especially happy to help high visibility sites.

rskhanna’s picture

rskhanna commented

Thank you.

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Rajiv S. Khanna; http://www.immigration.com

nernst’s picture

nernst commented

Is there a mechanism in Drupal to allow large taxonomies to be displayed more efficiently? Tax_dhtml does not seem to do this. I have a vocab. with > 100 terms and it isn't usable displayed as a flat list.

cczona’s picture

cczona commented

I thought there had been a feature request already open for adding select list support in taxonomy_dhtml, but couldn't find one in the project tracker. It would be a good option to add. Don't forget that you can create a feature request any time.

taffy-1’s picture

taffy-1 commented

I'm interested in the "1d" question too.

I'm aslo wondering if it's possible to tag a forum aricle with taxonomy terms from another vocab. The reason I ask is that to get around the "1d" issue above I've created a flater version of my main vocab for use as the forum vocab (the one that defines the structure of the forums), however I exepct users will still like to occasionaly tag articles with a term from the main vocab.

Since I'm still new at all this I'm probablly missing something. If I'm not I'll put in a feature request.

Paul